In the second half of the novel, Miles and his friends work to discover the missing details of the night Alaska died. Throughout the 'Before' section of the novel, Miles and his friends Chip "The Colonel" Martin, Alaska Young, and Takumi Hikohito grow very close and the section culminates in Alaska's death. Looking for Alaska follows the novel's main character and narrator Miles Halter, or "Pudge," to boarding school where he goes to seek a "Great Perhaps," the famous last words of François Rabelais. The characters and events of the plot are grounded in Green's life, while the story itself is fictional.
Based on his time at Indian Springs School, Green wrote the novel as a result of his desire to create meaningful young adult fiction. I am surely looking forward to gorging all that John Green has ever written.Looking for Alaska is American author John Green‘s debut novel, published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile.Go for it! “Looking for Alaska” will amaze you with what it has to offer and thus I recommend it to all my readers.Miles and Alaska will strike you as the perfect “imperfect” couple beautiful and enigmatic in their own way.The characters will make you miss them dearly and crave for more of them.If you are even a little bit emotional, I am sure you can’t help but cry for such is the portrayal of emotions of the characters.A perfect example of a tragic puppy romance with just the right sprinkle of drama and adventure.Parts of the book will make you miss your school/college days.It is the perfect example of a good high school story gone tragic.The story and the plot are simply beautiful.So what will happen to Miles? What terrible incident will leave him shattered for the rest of his life? To know this and much more you’ve got to read the book yourself. But Alaska already has a boyfriend named Jake.Īs time progresses Alaska too grows close to Miles but before things could have progressed further something terrible happens which leaves Miles’s world in the doldrums. Upon his arrival, he soon befriends Chip “The Colonel” Martin, Takumi Hikohito and Alaska Young.Īs the friends spend more and more time with each other they get even closer and soon Miles realises that he has fallen in love with Alaska. This is the story of Miles Halter who bids adieu to his home in Florida to attend the Culver Creek High School in the state of Alabama. The movie “A Fault in Our Stars” made John Green famous overnight but little do people know that John Green had shown the first signs of success and fame from the very start of his career as a writer when he first penned down “Looking for Alaska”.
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